[Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions

[Angela]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > http://trac.wikia-code.com/browser/wikia/branches/wysiwyg will be
>>> Is it a MediaWiki fork or just an extension? If it is a fork, up to
>>> which extent it is compatible with the main MediaWiki? If it is an
>>> extension, where is the root of the extension?
>>
>> It's an extension plus some changes to the parser.
>
> Do you (and Brion! and other MW developers) have the idea is it hard
> to implement it into WMF projects?

We're hoping to get parser changes into the core to make that easy.
(Sorry for being off-topic on this list - please contact me offlist
for any more questions on this).

Angela